26TH OF SEPTEMBER 1982

Thanks to Christ’s death and resurrection the symbol of disgrace and humiliation became the symbol of courage, bravery, help and brotherhood. In the sign of the cross we seize today everything that is most beautiful and valuable in the human being. It is through cross that we proceed to resurrection, there is no other way. That is why crosses of our Homeland, crosses of our families and our own will lead us to resurrection if we carry them jointly with Christ, who conquered the cross.

We can bear our sufferings and crosses jointly with Christ because the trial of Christ is still going on. The trial of Christ is going on in His brothers because actors of the drama and the trial of Christ are still alive, only their surnames and faces, their dates and places of birth have changed. Methods change but the trial of Christ goes on. READ MORE

31ST OF OCTOBER 1982

You have to live in Truth to remain spiritually free. Life in Truth consists of giving testimony, acknowledging the Truth and defending it in each situation. Truth never changes. It cannot be destroyed by any decision or legal act. Our slavery stems from our surrender to the rule of lie, our failure to unmask lie and to protest against it in everyday life. Instead of correcting lie we keep silent or pretend to believe it’s true. This means living in falsehood. Telling the Truth with courage is a way leading directly to freedom. A man who tells the Truth is a free man despite external slavery, imprisonment or custody. If in the present political situation the majority of Poles followed the one and only Truth, our nation would become spiritually free today! The external or political freedom would follow sooner or later as a consequence of the spiritual freedom and faithfulness to the Truth.

Overcoming fear is a key element in the process of setting Man free. Fear springs from threat. We fear suffering; we fear the loss of some goods, the loss of freedom, health or job. This fear makes us act against our conscience and it is by means of conscience that we measure Truth. We overcome fear the moment we agree to lose something for the sake of higher values. If Truth becomes a value worth suffering for, worth taking a risk, then we will overcome fear that keeps us in slavery. On many occasions Christ said to His apostles: ”Do not fear. Do not fear those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do” (Lk 12, 4).

24TH OF APRIL 1983

(...) By uniting God, prayer and work Man will discover the hidden sense behind his life and all its hardships. Man who works hard without God, prayer and ideals will walk like a bird with one wing. Incapable of flying high, an invalid bird won’t notice better opportunities, and won’t make a bigger sense of its life. Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, the Primate of a Thousand Years who died two years ago, understood this message when he called: ”Open the gates of factories, workshops, clinics and all other workplaces from high chimneys to deep mines, open them up to pour in new life...” – to pour in God! The ”Solidarity” movement proved that social and economic changes do not require breaking off with God.

27TH OF MAY 1984

(...) To a large extend we are to blame for our own slavery when we accept evil or even adopt it because of fear or for convenience. If because of fear or for convenience we accept the mechanisms of evil to operate in our lives we will have no right to condemn it because we ourselves created evil and helped to legalise it.
Back in August 1980 workmen passed the exam in bravery. Many of them are still taking it today.
Recently pupils from a school in Miętno showed courage when they stood up to defend Christ’s cross.
Our brothers in jail recently proved themselves valiant when they chose to remain in custody instead of betraying their own ideals and ours.

Any nation is bound to perish if deprived of bravery, if it pretends that everything is good when it’s not, and if it is satisfied with half-truths.
Every day we must be aware that when we are demanding truth from others we must live in truth ourselves, demanding justice we must be just, demanding bravery we must be brave.